In Dec 2008 elotto added the Spanish lottery to its product range, affording players globally a vastly improved chance of partaking in this super Spanish lotto prize fund.

If its the first time you have come across the Spanish Lottery, let me highlight just how measurable this lottery is to the big majority of the Spanish population. The Spanish lotto has been a national obsession in Spain for a very long time with enormous interest generated by the Christmas lotto draw every year. Believe it or not 98% of the population play this Spanish National lottery every Christmas.

There are a couple of great reasons why so many Spanish subjects join in the Christmas El Gordo lottery draw.

First, there is the inducement of the biggest lottery prize fund of any worldwide lotto game - with over 2 Billion Euros! Second, there are in excess of thirteen thousand money prizes to be won. Finally, the probability of picking up a money prize in the Christmas lotto draw are a highly attainable - one in six.

With the amount of interest that is given to the Christmas El Gordo lotto draw, lots of people are oblivious that there is five extra Spanish Lotto draws each year as well. These games happen on March, May, July, January and November. Despite the fact that these 5 lottery games do not boast the big prize fund of the Christmas lotto draw, they are sizable nonetheless, ranging from seventy eight million Euros to six hundred & sixty six million Euros. Plus, these games provide virtually 3 times as many prizes as the Christmas lottery draw and betting odds of picking up a money prize of an awesome one : three.

The Christmas Spanish lottery functions in an unusual way to nearly all other worldwide drawings. A whole ticket ‘billete’ is really expensive, costing two hundred Euros. However, these lotto tickets are divided up into 10 ‘decimos’ (tenths) costing 20 Euros each.

When purchasing your lottery tickets you have the option of purchasing 1 decimo, a complete ticket, or a portion of a lotto ticket. If you do not purchase the whole lotto ticket, someone else will purchase the remainder of your ticket. For Instance, when you buy 2 decimos, someone else purchases 3 decimos and someone else purchases five and your lotto ticket wins one thousand Euros, then you will collect two hundred Euros, 300 Euros and 500 Euros respectively. Owing to the expense of purchasing a full lotto ticket, it is not uncommon for households and acquaintances to incorporate their lotto money and each buy a separate ‘decimo’ 10th.